A FECKLESS APOLOGY    

Apparently I posted a Feckless FRI entry yesterday, under the mistaken impression that it was already FRI. I'm sorry IF I confused anybody.

4TH OF JULY    

"USA prepares for blockbuster July 4th." Drudge Report. Last year with skipped Boomfest in Norfolk. Due to COVID concerns, the venue was moved from Skyview Lake to the parking list of Northeast Community College, & we assumed that it would be underwhelming. This year's event will be held again at Skyview Lake. Boomfest, in case you are innocently ignorant, is the most awesome fireworks exhibition between the Platte & Missouri Rivers.

CRIMINAL MINDS

"Federally protected birds terrorizing passersby, leaving bloodied." Drudge. This travesty wouldn't be tolerated if Ron DeSantis was president.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"STUDY:  French fries good for blood pressure?" Drudge. I'm still going to try to adhere to my 2021 resolution to give up French fries this year.

TRENDING *

* Compliments of the Babylon Bee

"'We at the NSA are not spying on you,' insists muffled voice coming from Tucker Carlson's toaster."

"Britney Spears immediately freed after donning Bill Cosby mask."

"AOC switches to Republican Party after Jen Pasaki says they're the ones who want to defund the police."

"Facebook to provide pop-up warning when your friends begin thinking for themselves."

"10 Reasons the 2020 election was the fairest election of all time . . . Journalists were fair & balanced i assessing the qualities of moderate, kind, decent Joe Biden, & of his opponent Hitler . . . Mail-in votes were handled by USPS--the most reliable, trustworthy company on the planet."

CRITICAL RACE THEORY

"Writing about the new, much-discussed Texas education law in The New Yorker, Benjamin Wallace-Wells concludes that its point is to “establish a protective halo around white students, so that they do not hear that their success might have something to do with their race, or that the structures of racial power and privilege in the past also apply to the present" . . . This description of the law (echoed by Timothy Snyder in this much worse New York Times Magazine essay) is not quite right. The law does not insist that students should not feel discomfort or guilt based on their race; it insists that teachers not instruct them that they should feel distress based on their race. A teacher is not violating the law if a lesson about the long history of white mistreatment of blacks in the U.S. causes a white student to feel shame. What the teacher may not do is say that white students should be ashamed of this history." Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review Online

GOVERNMENT

"Turning everything going on around the president into a never-ending circus or soap opera is a good way to ensure that people spend little or no time paying attention to what’s actually going on in the rest of the government." Jim Geraghty, NRO

ABORTION

"One of the first actions taken by President Biden upon entering office was to undo all provisions that protect the life of the unborn in the U.S. and abroad. His memo from January 28 stated, “Women should have access to the healthcare they need. For too many women today, both at home and abroad, that is not possible.” It continues, “It is the policy of my Administration to support women’s and girl’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States, as well as globally.” Sexual and reproductive health and rights is a term specifically chosen to include abortion. 

"Simply put, the unstated purpose of Biden’s memo is to ensure access to free abortion with no limits globally, even if this means bypassing a country’s national sovereignty. The memo states that existing conditions undermine the U.S.’s ability to advance “gender equality” globally because it restricts the possibility to support “women’s health.” Women and gender equality are not of interest to the Biden administration, advancing the abortion agenda is. 

"Let’s just say it: abortion is not healthcare. An unborn baby who lives inside her mother’s womb is not an illness to be handled." Nedy Cassilas, Townhall